Adult & Contemporary Fiction

The second thrilling book in Sally Green's Half Bad trilogy, the inspiration for the Netflix series The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself "An enthralling fantasy in the Harry Potter tradition."—Time magazine on Half Bad Kept in a cage...

The inspiration for the Netflix series The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself“An enthralling fantasy in the Harry Potter tradition.”—Time magazine“A bewitching new thriller.”—The Wall Street JournalIn a modern-day...

Get ready to root for a psychopath. How I’ll Kill You is a coming-of-age story, a love story and a fresh entry into the thriller field that will grip you from the moment you open the cover.Your next stay-up-all-night thriller, about identical...

In this “top-notch mystery thriller” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) from Alex Finlay,What Have We Done is a tale about the lives we leave behind and the secrets we carry with us forever.One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2023:•...

Desperate Housewives meets The Couple Next Door in a chilling story of murder and intrigue set in a well-to-do DC suburb. Sometimes the darkest acts occur in the most beautiful houses…When Alexis and her husband Sam buy a neglected Cape Cod house...

Staying with a friend and her husband is sexier—and deadlier—than anyone could have imagined, in this “delightfully salacious” (Shondaland) domestic suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s...

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER • A Best Book of 2023(Vulture) • A Best Horror Book of All Time (Cosmopolitan) • A Best Horror Book of 2023 (Esquire) • An Indie Next Pick • A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Pick!The author of The Last House on...

Hearkening back to Friday the 13th in all the best ways, this is a horror that reads like a movie, with shocking reveals, twists and turns every step of the way.From the author of How to Survive Your Murder comes a propulsive thriller about two teens who...

A standalone companion to An Improbable Season, this Regency romance ⁠— perfect for fans of Bridgerton — is about following your heart, pursuing your dreams, and falling head over heels in love.Eleanor did not come to London to be proper and...

Love is more complicated than “boy meets boy” in bestselling author Adib Khorram’s sharply funny new romantic comedy, set in the sordid world of high school theaterJackson Ghasnavi is a lot of things—a techie, a smoothie...

WINNER OF THE MISHIMA YUKIO PRIZE.A WORLD LITERATURE TODAY NOTABLE BOOK 2023. An ordinary housewife finds herself haunted by visions of a mushroom cloud and abruptly leaves her husband and son to travel alone to the city of Nagasaki, where she soon...

An extraordinary collection of Japanese ghost stories, many in English for the first time!This spine-chilling anthology of 77 spooky stories from the Japanese collection Tales from Shinshu is compiled and edited by award-winning author Noboru Wada. It...

A People magazine must-read of summer! "Suiter Clarke paints a devastating portrait of a cultlike institution and a town in its thrall. It’s even worse than we imagined."  — New York Times Book Review A young woman returns to...

In a “thriller with a sharp take on wealth and privilege” (People, Book of the Week), two best friends grift their way through the California elite—until one scam goes awry.“A propulsive, sun-drenched adventure with smart, sharp...

“Shocking, disturbing, and utterly original.” —Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Timesbestselling author.This “haunting and poignant tale, one that won’t be easy to forget any time soon” (Mystery and Suspense Magazine),...

Two unlikely mothers race to uncover the truth behind a horrific attack—even after it becomes clear that the truth will destroy one of their families—in this shocking thriller that is "both timely and emotional" (Julie Clark, New York Times...

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER."A murder mystery that feels as magnetic, timeless, and inextricable from Hollywood legend as the Black Dahlia . . . There's no one better at writing the dark side of Hollywood than Halley Sutton." —Ashley Winstead,...

For fans of Riley Sager, Grady Hendrix, movie buffs and Jimmy Juliano’s Dead Elevenplus some 90s nostalgia, we present to you Burn the Negative. Josh Winning wears his stabbed, bleeding heart on his sleeve with characters like Needle Man; a main...

Memory is a fascinating concept, and that fascination turns to terror thanks to Kiersten White’s Mister Magic, which tells the chilling story of a children’s TV program gone wrong. And underneath that terror is a bit of warmth not often found...

From the award-winning master of crime fiction, Denise Mina re-imagines the "Bonfire of the Vanities,” a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century—inspired by the fanatical Girolamo Savonarola.Girolamo...